Dispersal of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </em>driven by historical European trade in the South Pacific (Publications)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a globally distributed bacterial pathogen whose population structure has largely been shaped by the activities of its obligate human host. Oceania was the last majo
Structure, biosynthesis, and bioactivity of photoditritide from <em>Photorhabdus temperata</em> Meg1 (Publications)
A new cyclic peptide photoditritide (1), containing two rare amino acid d-homoarginine residues, was isolated from Photorhabdus temperata Meg1 after the nonribosomal peptide synthetase encoding gene p
Regulating pharmacists as contraception providers: a qualitative study from Coastal Kenya on injectable contraception provision to youth (Publications)
INTRODUCTION: Young people worldwide are often reticent to access family planning services from public health facilities: instead, they choose to get contraception from private, retail pharmacies. In
A real-world quality assessment study in six ExpoM-RF measurement devices (Publications)
Exposimeters measuring radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) are commonly used to assess personal exposure to RF-EMF in real-life environments. They are usually calibrated in an anechoic cham
Targeting <em>Plasmodium </em>plasmepsin V: hitting two birds with one stone (Publications)
A recent report by Jennison et al. reveals an important role for plasmepsin V (PMV), an aspartyl protease, in the development of malaria transmission stages. The authors showed that PMV activity is cr
A vision to strengthen resources and capacity of the Palestinian health research system: a qualitative assessment (Publications)
Abstract Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a global strategy to build a robust Health Research System Resources and Infrastructural Capacity (HRSRIC). Despite the growing resear
Good health and well-being – framing targets to maximise co-benefits for forests and people (Publications)
SDG3, Health and Wellbeing for All, depends on many other SDGs but there are also potential conflicts and trade-offs. In this chapter, ee stress the importance of forests to global health and well-bei
Deworming children for soil-transmitted helminths in low and middle-income countries: systematic review and individual participant data network... (Publications)
Intestinal parasites affect millions of children globally. We aimed to assess effects of deworming children on nutritional and cognitive outcomes across potential effect modifiers using individual par
Heckman-type selection models to obtain unbiased estimates with missing measures outcome: theoretical considerations and an application to missing... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In low-income settings, key outcomes such as biomarkers or clinical assessments are often missing for a substantial proportion of the study population. The aim of this study was to assess
Associations between metal constituents of ambient particulate matter and mortality in England: an ecological study (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: To investigate long-term associations between metal components of particulate matter (PM) and mortality and lung cancer incidence. DESIGN: Small area (ecological) study. SETTING: Populatio
